COMPUTER: Warning. Oxygen level at one hundred four millibars.
TORRES: Tom, come on, open your eyes.
COMPUTER: Warning. Oxygen level at eighty seven millibars.
PARIS: I was having a dream.
TORRES: There’s something I have to say.
PARIS: Me too. I’m glad the last thing I’ll see is you.
TORRES: I’ve been a coward about everything. Everything that really matters.
PARIS: Now you’re being a little hard on yourself.
TORRES: No, I’m gonna die without a shred of honour, and for the first time in my life that really bothers me. So I have to tell you something. I
COMPUTER: Warning. Oxygen level at seventy one millibars.
TORRES: I have to tell you the truth.
PARIS: The truth about what?
TORRES: I love you. Say something.
PARIS: You picked a great time to tell me.
JANEWAY [OC]: Voyager to Tom Paris. Tom, do you read me? Respond.
PARIS: We’re here.
JANEWAY [OC]: Prepare to beam aboard.
I remember watching this episode when it first aired when I was 8 years old and tearing up. This was the moment I fell in love with Star Trek.
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